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ASPDAC
2006
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
An O(mn) time algorithm for optimal buffer insertion of nets with m sinks
— Buffer insertion is an effective technique to reduce interconnect delay. In this paper, we give a simple O(mn) time algorithm for optimal buffer insertion, where m is the numbe...
Zhuo Li, Weiping Shi
DAC
2009
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
A fully polynomial time approximation scheme for timing driven minimum cost buffer insertion
As VLSI technology enters the nanoscale regime, interconnect delay has become the bottleneck of the circuit timing. As one of the most powerful techniques for interconnect optimiz...
Shiyan Hu, Zhuo Li, Charles J. Alpert
DAC
1998
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Buffer Insertion for Noise and Delay Optimization
Interconnect-driven optimization is an increasingly important step in high-performance design. Algorithms for buffer insertion have been successfully utilized to reduce delay in gl...
Charles J. Alpert, Anirudh Devgan, Stephen T. Quay
VLSID
1999
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Spec-Based Repeater Insertion and Wire Sizing for On-chip Interconnect
Recently Lillis, et al. presented an elegant dynamic programming approach to RC interconnect delay optimization through driver sizing, repeater insertion, and, wire sizing which e...
Noel Menezes, Chung-Ping Chen
DAC
1997
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Wire Segmenting for Improved Buffer Insertion
Buffer insertion seeks to place buffers on the wires of a signal net to minimize delay. Van Ginneken [14] proposed an optimal dynamic programming solution (with extensions propose...
Charles J. Alpert, Anirudh Devgan